Friday is a big day for me. Lots to do at the cleveland clinic. First they are doing an echo cardiogram(Sp?) Where they take a look at my heart do see how Doxorubicin(sp?) is doing to it, and to get a baseline. Because that medicine is heart toxic and you can only have so much in your lifetime, they have to know how bad they are screwing it up to begin with. haha (from Wikipedia " However, by 1967, it was recognized that daunorubicin could produce fatal cardiac toxicity.".
Then I get to spend some time with my oncologist and and its like the same questions how are you doing, how are you feeling, etc. etc. Then i do 6+ hours of chemotherapy. They reason it is so long is because retuxicion(sp) can cause some major reactions so they have to drip it entirely to slow, the good news is that has no real side effects afterwords, its the other cancer drugs that do it to ya. Whats funny is that Doxorubicin has a problem with heart toxicity, but there are 5 huge syringes, where each syringe takes like 5 minutes . The others are pretty quick and I get to sit in a little room with a tv/vcr from 1985, I even thought it was a beta and first, and get my own bathroom and wifi(yay for me) and sit there and try to keep myself from going charlie sheen the whole day with an iv stuck in my arm.
So I will be on my way to cleveland tomorrow, so I may not post, but I probably will post during chemo, and will try to videotape what happens so people get some sort of idea what hundreds of thousands of people go through during it. It wont be continuous buts its so long but it will just be the good parts, well if you can call them good parts.
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